[JoshTriplett]

I personally find Computer Modern quite pleasant to read and work with.

Apart from personal preference, why avoid Computer Modern?

[analog31]

It shows that you took an extra year to write your dissertation. ;-)

Just kidding, but I got my degree 25 years ago, and at the time, the students who tried to have a perfectly typeset document spent a lot of time on that pursuit.

[andreasvc]

It is an extremely thin font which makes it unsuitable for screen reading.

[jjgreen]

A lot of the time, the TeX output target is paper, and there (with a decent resolution printer) it looks rather splendid (in my view anyway).

[0-_-0]

For me the horizontal line in the letter "e" often disappears with smaller text sizes.